"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that
belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen." - Claude M.
Bristol

"As you believe, so you become. As you become, so you believe." - Unknown

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius
and power and magic in it." - Goethe

Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you find yourself in a hole the first thing to do is stop diggin'."
- Unknown Cowboy

"Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be." - Lactantius

"When we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission
to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically
liberates others." - Marianne Williamson

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your
character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what
others think you are." - John Wooden

"When we live our life contrary to the inner guidance of our Soul, our
actions often have a disharmonious effect upon ourselves, others and the
Earth. This is why the evolution of individual human consciousness is
intimately linked with the future of this planet. In light of this, the
crisis of all physical illness, emotional imbalance and planetary upheaval
has but one ultimate purpose: to provide an opportunity that will motivate
us to realign our body, mind and emotions with the infinite love, wisdom
and healing of our Soul. Therefore, whenever we gather the courage to
do whatever it takes to end the war within, we contribute directly and
immediately to our own healing and transformation as well as to the peace
that our world cries out for." - John-Michael

"You must be the change you want to see in the world." - Gandhi

"Time has a very elastic quality. It depends upon the will and desire
of the individual as to what he or she can accomplish within the time
allotted." - Jesse Holmes

"You can't lose anything because you never had it. The only thing you've
ever really had is yourself." - Deepak Chopra

"Many have not been told that birth into a physical world is a death in
the spiritual worlds from which they came. Hence most are never aware
that death in the physical world is merely a birth into other dimensions
of life." - Jesse Holmes

"Few people will dispute that in the world of nature everything reacts
to an exact law; and physical as these laws seem in their outworking,
they all originate from the spiritual universe. There can be no haphazard
methods, for nature is very drastic with delinquents. This also happens
in the spiritual spheres where the smallest action calls forth an exact
reaction. This means that man's thoughts become his creations, that they
become like angels of good and evil to him; so that when he views his
life from some higher plane of existence, he well realizes the disastrous
nature of those mental creations of his - of gloom, depression and selfishness
- which were and are his mental children. "This has affected me deeply
since my arrival here, for I was wont to create such characters, scenes
and word-pictures. Mine was a vivid imagination; and, while I gave forth
many a picture of joy, homeliness and beauty, my pen also depicted scenes
of crudity, ugliness, crime and horror. While recognizing that such pictures
may by their very contrast teach their lesson, on the other hand creations
of ugliness and terror are apt to live on in men's minds, and fill them
with violent and unhealthy vibrations. Now I gaze down into the lives
of men and women who have been considerably influenced by me for either
good or ill. This I tell you only to illustrate the lesson. "Some day
every man will attain either the joy or the terror of seeing the effect
of his creations, beautiful or the reverse; no matter whether they are
merely fictitious characters or actual conditions of life resulting from
actions of his which have considerably influenced the lives of others.
He will then see his own personal contribution, be it positive or negative,
to the collective whole." - Arthur Conan Doyle, from the "after-death"
state

"Any pain that comes is to make you understand the nature of joy more
deeply and bring you into joy." - Mother Meera

"When you know that you are eternal you can play your true role in time.
When you know you are divine you can become completely human. When you
know you are one with God you are free to become absolutely yourself..."
- Mother Meera

"One common mistake is to think that one reality is THE reality. You must
always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one." - Mother Meera

"For the mind to flower it has to go beyond what it knows." - Mother Meera

"The true experience of bliss is without words." - Mother Meera

"In silence one can receive more because all one's activities become concentrated
at one point. There is only one real rhythm; in silence you hear it. When
you live to the rhythm of this silence, you become it, slowly; everything
you do, you do to it." - Mother Meera

"Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is
here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose,
vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits
extend to infinity." - Thomas Merton

"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something
in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds so
each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest
imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. Most of these unnumbered
seeds perish and are lost, because men are not prepared to receive them:
for such seeds as these cannot spring up anywhere except in the good soil
of freedom, spontaneity, and love." - Thomas Merton

"At the root of all war is fear; not so much the fear men have of one
another as the fear they have of everything. It is not merely that they
do not trust one another; they do not even trust themselves.... They cannot
trust anything, because they have ceased to believe in God." - Thomas
Merton

"We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational
mania of those who hate or condemn us... We have to consider the fact
that in its provocative aspect, non-violence may tend to harden the opposition
and to confirm people in their righteous blindness." - Thomas Merton

"If you who are seeking love and truth cannot rise above the illusion
of turmoil, how can those who are locked in it be helped? It is you who
are empowered through the strength of your love, your commitment to truth,
who will bring about the elevation of consciousness of those who are wracked
in such fear that they would destroy the world rather than acknowledge
their own terror." - Emmanuel

"There is never any justification for violence, for hatred, for murder.
Those who indulge in violence for whatever reason are themselves changed,
and the purity of their [soul] purpose adulterated." - Seth

"With a sense of humor, hate is all too funny and therefore it loses its
power. Love, on the other hand, even with a sense of humor, becomes highly
precious and large enough so that it can contain old hatreds quite nicely."
- Seth

"When you look into yourself, the very effort involved extends the limitations
of your consciousness, expands it, and allows the egotistical self to
use its abilities that it often does not realize it possesses." - Seth

"If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what
you think of others and you will find the answer." - Seth

"Say to yourself 'That is in the past. Now in this new moment, this new
present, I am already beginning to change for the better.'" - Seth

"In spontaneity there is a discipline that utterly escapes you, and an
order beyond any that you know. Spontaneity knows its own order." - Seth

"The people that you can help now and the particular good that you can
do, can never be done in precisely the same way." - Seth

"That is why I am teaching you how to become more unlimited in your thought
processes. For the more unlimited your thinking becomes, the more unlimited
your life shall become - wherever you are. The greater the heaven you
create here, within your own kingdom of thought and emotion, the greater
the heaven you will experience when you leave this plane. Those whose
thoughts are steeped in guilt, judgment of self and others, and bitterness
and hatred toward their brothers, will leave this plane only to continue
to experience those attitudes until they learn from them - until they
have had their gut full of them and realize that there are grander ways
to be and greater heavens to experience." - Ramtha

"The less you think of yourself, the less you become. The less you give
credit to yourself for having intelligence, the more of an imbecile you
become. The less beautiful you think you are, the more ugly you become.
The more impoverished you think you are, the more wretched you become
- because YOU have ordained it to be so." - Ramtha

"Each entity knows before he comes here that he is not coming back to
be the grand beauty or the wealthy entity or the wretched pauper. He comes
here because he wants to live here and to be enterprising in emotional
learning on this level - to obtain EMOTIONAL understandings that he wants
to fulfill within his being. That is the true treasure of your life experiences,
whether here or on other planes or dimensions, for that is the only thing
that remains with you throughout eternity." - Ramtha

"To be desireless, there is nothing wrong with that at all. I will tell
you why. Most that are filled with unquenchable desires never know who
they are for they are too busy wanting. When you realize that everything
you want is within you, then the Source brings a treasure at your doorstep
and leaves it there every moment of being. And you have everything you
ever wanted - YOU." - Ramtha

"Wisdom is accumulated emotion. That is what makes each entity different
from all others who come to this plane. You will not experience the things
you have already experienced and understood, for you will have no DESIRE
to. The things that you have yet to understand, adventures that hold the
promise of fulfillment and wisdom, you will always be drawn to, for they
will excite you, tempt you, intrigue you, puzzle you. If you will simply
allow yourself to be, and listen to the urgings within your being, the
feelings within you, you will always be experiencing what you are most
needing in order to expand your wondrous self into greater wisdom and
perpetual joy." - Ramtha